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LAWS OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



CHAR I. 

OF ADMISSION AND MATRICULATION. 

1. No one shall be admitted to the University, un- 
less he have a good moral character, certified in writing 
by his preceptor or some other suitable person 

2. To be received into the Freshman Class, the 
candidate must be thoroughly acquainted with the 
Grammar of the Latin and Greek languages, including 
Prosody ; be able properly to construe and parse any 
portion of the follov^ing books, namely, Jacobs' Greek 
Reader,* the Gospels mmMm^ in the Greek Testament, 
Virgil, Sallust, and Cicero's Select Orations, and to 
translate English into Latin correctly. He must be 
well versed in Ancient and Modern Geography; the 
fundamental rules of Arithmetic ; vulgar and decimal 
fractions ; proportion, simple and compound ; single 
and double fellowship; alligation, medial and alter- 
nate ; and algebra to the end of simple equations, 
comprehending also the doctrine of roots and powers, 
and arithmetical and geometrical progression.f 

* Instead of Jacobs' Greek Reader, Dalzel's Collectanea Graeca Minora 
■will be accepted until 1826. 

t The other books used in the examination are the following, namely, 
Adam's Latin Grammar (Gould's edition is preferred) ; the Gloucester 
Greek Grammar (Buttraann's Greek Grammar, and the Abridgment of it, 
are also allowed) ; Lacrois's Arithmetic, Cambridge edition ; Euler's Algebra, 
printed also at Cambridge ; " Elements of Geography, Ancient and Mod- 
ern, by J, E. Worcester." 



4 ADMISSION AND MATRICULATION. [^Chap- I. 

3. No one will be admitted after the usual time, un- 
less he satisfies the Faculty of the University that he 
has been necessarily prevented from offering himself 
in season. If any one be admitted after the first Fri- 
day in October, he will be charged for advanced 
standing. 

4. No person may be admitted to advanced standing 
after the beginning of the second term of the Senior 
year. 

5. In order to such admission, in addition to the 
requisites for the Freshman Class, he must appear, on 
examination, to be well versed in the studies of the 
class which he proposes to enter.* He must also 
pay into the Treasury, one hundred dollars for each 
year's advancement, and ratably for a less time : Pro- 
vided that the Government may reduce this charge to 
sixty dollars, in favour of meritorious beneficiaries upon 
application. Any Scholar, however, who has a regular 
dismission from another College, may be admitted to 
the standing, for which, on examination, he is found 
qualified, without any pecuniary consideration. 

6. Every person who maybe accepted on examina- 
tion, and be permitted to join the University^ shall be 
on probation, and shall not be admitted as a member 
of the Society in full standing, until after one term. 

* Whereas, in consequence of the different order of studies in different 
Colleges, Candidates from other Colleges for advanced standing in this, 
while deficient in»some branches, may yet have anticipated others ; so that 
on the whole they may have learned as large an amount of the studies of 
this Seminary, as the Class for admission to which they apply ; in such cas- 
es, the Faculty of the University will receive the anticipated for the deficient 
studies. Provided, however, that no studies shall be received in compensa- 
tion but such as form a part of the course at this University; and that the 
candidate have so much knowledge in each department, as to be able to go 
on with the class. And the applicant shall be admitted only on condition 
that he afterwards make up such deficient studies, to the satisfaction of the 
Faculty upon examination ; and should he neglect so to do, his connexion 
with the University shall be forfeited. 

Candidates from such a distance as renders it difficult to obtain a knowl- 
edge of the exact order of studies at this University, shall be entitled to the 
privilege of the foregoing rule. 



Chap» I.] ADMISSION AND MATRICULATION. 5 

This time may be prolonged^ however, at the discre- 
tion of the Faculty, to a period not exceeding a year. 
If, during the time of his probation, a Student shall 
fail to manifest such a degree of diligence in study, 
disposition to good order, and obedience to the laws, 
as shall be satisfactory to the Faculty ; or if upon 
any other ground it be deemed by the Faculty not ad- 
visable, that he should become a member of the Uni- 
versity, his connexion shall cease. 

7. No application for the admission of a person thus 
separated from the University, shall be received till 
after the interval of a year, and only upon his pro- 
ducing satisfactory testimonials of good conduct during 
the whole time of his separation. If again accepted 
upon examination, he shall be put on probation as 
before ; and if during this second probation he shall 
be again separated from the University, his separa- 
tion shall be final. 

8. The parents or guardians of those Students who 
have been accepted on examination, or some other per- 
son for them, must advance ten dollars to the Steward, 
and give a bond to the President and Fellows, with 
surety or sureties to the satisfaction of the Steward, in 
the sum of four hundred dollars, to pay their quarter 
bills according to the laws and customs of the Uni- 
versity. 

9. Every one who has been accepted shall on the 
first day of the tern^or as soon after as may be, exhib- 
it to the President a certificate that the bond has been 
given, and the payment made, agreeably to the forego- 
ing law. He shall then sign an engagement in the 
following form : " I do promise and engage, that I will 
observe and conform to the laws and regulations made 
for the government of the Students of Harvard Univer- 
sity ; " and every person admitted as a Student in the 
University, shall sign a like engagement. 



6 OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT. [Chap, II. 

10. Resident Students ^hall sign the above engage- 
ment with the President ; and Students of Medicine 
attending Medical lectures, shall sign it with the Dean 
of the Faculty of Medicine. 

11. The University is open to persons who are not 
candidates for a degree, and who desire to study in par- 
ticular departments only : Provided that such persons 
have a good moral character ; that their previous ac- 
quisitions be such, as are now demanded of Students 
before admission, so far as the studies proposed to be 
pursued shall require ; and that they be subject to all 
the laws of the University, in regard to diligence and 
good conduct. 



CHAP. II. 

OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY. 

12. The President, the Professors not exempted by 
the tenure of their offices, and the Tutors^ have the 
immediate care and government of the Students, and 
are denominated the Faculty of the University. 

13. The Corporation and Overseers constitute the 
Government of the University. 

14. The Faculty have authority to make all orders 
and regulations necessary for carrying into effect their 
powers and duties, and to appoint Committees of their 
body with power to hear, determine, and punish any 
offence by any punishment below suspension. 

15. The Faculty have cognizance of all offences 
committed by the Students, and it is their duty to en- 
force the due observance of all the laws and regulations 
for maintaining discipline, and promoting order, virtue, 



Chap. II.] OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT. 7 

piety, and good learning in the Society. The several 
members of the Faculty, as also the other Officers and 
Instructers, will exert their personal influence and au- 
thority to maintain discipline, order, and respect for 
the laws ; and will refer to the Facuhy all offences, 
the punishment of which may exceed their power ; and 
on such, as well as on all other occasions, will afford the 
Faculty and the President their advice, information^ and 
cooperation. 

When any Student is brought before the Faculty 
for violence or insult offered to any of the officers of 
the University, the persons injured or insulted, unless 
they be a majority of the officers, shall not have a 
voice, nor be present at the meeting. 

16. The Faculty shall meet at stated times, and 
whenever convoked by the President, to perform 
the duties incumbent on them ; to communicate and 
and compare their opinions and information respecting 
the conduct and character of the Students and the 
state of the University ; and to consider and suggest 
such measures as may tend to its improvement. 

17. The Professors and other Officers usually ex- 
empted from the duty of attending the meetings of the 
Faculty, shall, when requested by the President or the 
Boardj be associated with, and act for the time as 
members of the Board. 

18. It being the design of the Government to have 
the Faculty invested with ample power to administer 
the instruction and discipline of the University, they are 
expected and desired to propose at all times to the 
Government, any laws or measures, which they may 
find requisite or useful for the effectual exercise of their 
functions. 

19. It shall be the duty of the President to reside 
constantly at Cambridge, to exercise a general super- 
intendence over the concerns of the University, and see 



8 OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT. [^Cliap. II. 

that the course of instruction and discipline be carried 
into effect; to preside on public academic days; and 
to address instruction and counsel to the Students as 
he shall find opportunity. 

It is the duty of the President to call meetings of 
the Corporation and of the Faculty, to preside at the 
same, and to execute their votes and measures ; to ac- 
quaint himself intimately with the state, interests, and 
v^ants of the whole Institution ; to study its growth, 
the increase of its resources, the extension of instruction, 
and the better adaptation of it to the state of science 
and of society ; to be present, according to some fixed 
rules, at some of the exercises and recitations of each 
instructer, and by these and other means to endeavour 
to form an acquaintance with the capacity of every 
Student, to furnish new motives to application, and to 
ascertain the degree of knowledge acquired on the most 
important subjects ; to inquire into the execution of the 
laws, to see that no law falls silently into disuse, and to 
present for repeal to the Government any law w hich may 
be thought injurious or unnecessary. He is to exercise 
and perform all such other powers and duties as the 
President has been accustomed to exercise and per- 
form, and which are not by these Statutes assigned to 
the Faculty, or to some other officer of the University : 
Provided that the Corporation shall from time to 
time exempt him, as far as practicable, from such 
duties as are merely ministerial. The President is 
authorized to employ a private Secretary, whose com- 
pensation shall be determined by the Corporation. 

20. The Professors, unless specially exempted, are 
constantly to reside in Cambridge, having chambers in 
the University or dwelling near it ; and the Tutors, 
Librarian, and Proctors are to reside in the College 
edifices. 

21. The Professors, Tutors, Librarian, and other 



Chap* II ] OFFICERS AND GOVERNMENT, 9 

Officers, shall perform such services, in their respective 
offices, as have been, or may be, assigned to them by 
the Government. 

22. The Tutors and Librarian shall be chosen for 
a term not exceeding three years, and shall have like 
authority. 

23. The Proctors shall be chosen for a term not 
exceeding two years, and shall exercise in their 
particular districts, and throughout the University, the 
same inspection and authority as a Tutor. 

24. The Faculty will assign to the Graduates and 
Undergraduates the chambers and studies in the Col- 
lege edifices ; they will also appoint persons to be 
Monitors, and to do such other services as may be 
required, and fix their stipends, which, when not other- 
wise provided for, shall be charged to the Students in 
their quarter bills. 

25. Whereas it is inexpedient on divers accounts, 
that any class, or individual or individuals in a class, 
should make presents to the Instructers or Officers of 
the University, it is required that they discourage any 
attempt to make, and absolutely decline accepting, any 
such presents. 

26. As the Professor of Mathematics and the Libra- 
rian are intrusted with valuable property, belonging to 
the University, they shall respectively give a bond in such 
sum and with such sureties, as shall be directed by the 
Corporation, with condition to account for or replace 
all such property, as shall be committed to them in 
their respective offices. 

27. No person shall hold any executive office in the 
University, who has the pastoral care of a church, or 
who holds any civil office, except the office of Justice 
of the Peace ; and whoever shall accept such pastoral 
care, or any civil office except that of Justice of the 
Peace, shall be considered as resigning his place in the 

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10 METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. [Chap. III. 

University, and the same shall be void, and a new elec- 
tion shall take place. 

28. The emoluments of the President and of all the 
Professors and Instructers, shall be made to depend, 
when it can be done consistently with the statutes of 
their respective foundations, in some measure on the 
number of Students ; and for this purpose, whenever 
a new appointment is made to any of these offices, or 
whenever the present incumbents shall assent to the 
arrangement, these officers shall receive a certain fixed 
salary, and shall be entitled, in addition thereto, to a 
certain sum for every Undergraduate. 

29. One of the Faculty shall be appointed by the 
Corporation to the office of Registrar, who shall keep 
a record of the votes and orders passed by the Faculty, 
give certified copies of the same, when requisite, and 
prepare the letters to be sent to parents and guardians. 



CHAP. III. 

METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. 

Encouragements and Rewards. 

30. To encourage good conduct in the members of 
the society, and animate them to literary exertion, the 
following system of rewards is established. 

31 . The President, consulting with the Professors 
and Tutors, will, in the early part of each year, pre- 
sent books, provided by the Hopkins Fund, to such 
Students of the Sophomore Class as shall be most dis- 
tinguished for their application to their studies. 

32. The Corporation wdll give out subjects for the 
Bowdoin Prize Dissertations in the English language, 



CA«p. in.] METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. 11 

and assign to the author or authors of the two best 
performances a first premium for each, and to the 
author or authors of the two next best a second pre- 
mium for each, if so many dissertations, of sufficient 
merit, are offered. The first premium is a gold medal 
of the value of thirty dollars ; the second, a gold medal 
of the value of twenty dollars. Candidates must sub- 
scribe fictitious names to their dissertations, and accom- 
pany them with sealed letters having the fictitious 
names on the outside and their real names within ; 
which letters will be burnt unopened, except those of 
the successful candidates, whose names will be placed 
on the records of the Corporation and of the Faculty. 

33. In conformity to the will of the Founder of these 
prizes, the successful dissertations must be " read in 
publick by their respective authors, who shall deliver 
a fair copy of the same, to be lodged in the Library ; 
such copies to be written on quarto paper of the same 
size, that such of them, as shall merit it, may be 
bound together in handsome volumes and be lodged in 
the Library." 

34. Agreeably to the institution of the " Boylston 
Prizes for Elocution," on the day after Commence- 
ment in each year there will be held in University 
Hall, or in the Meeting house at Cambridge, a pub- 
lick exhibition and trial of the skill and improvement 
of the Students at the University in elocution. The 
speakers are not to rehearse their own composition ; 
but to select pieces in prose or verse, from English, 
Greek, or Latin authors, the selections to be approved 
by the Boylston Professor of Rhetorick and Oratory. 
The proportion in English, is to be at least two out of 
three. The competitors must be Graduates of the 
year, or Undergraduates of one of the two next 
classes. The Corporation will, each year, select 
five gentlemen distinguished for their elocution either 
at the bar, in the pulpit, or in the senate, who, 



12 METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. [Chap* III. 

with the Corporation, or a major part of them, will 
judge of the merits of the competitorsj and award 
the prizes. They will assign five prizes; two first 
prizes, namely, fifteen dollars or a gold medal of 
that value to each of the two best speakers, and 
three second prizes, namely, ten dollars or a gold medal 
of that value to each of the three next best : Provid- 
ed, that if the judges shall be of opinion that none 
of the competitors have exhibited sufficient skill and 
improvement to be entitled to the first prizes, they may 
withhold them. At this exhibition no prompting of 
the speakers will be allowed ; and a failure of mem- 
ory in any one, will exclude him from being consid- 
ered in the assignment of the prizes. 

36. In the selection of Students to receive pecuniary 
favours, such as the College benefits called exhibi- 
tions, and the Hollis scholarships, the Corporation 
will give the preference to those (not otherwise dis- 
qualified), who are of good behaviour, and who are 
recommended by the Faculty as excelling in their 
respective studies. Any open profaneness, or disor- 
derly or undutiful behaviour, shall be accounted a dis- 
qualification for such favours. In the appointment of 
Students by the Faculty to perform services to w hich 
a compensation is annexed, regard will also be had 
to literary merit and to moral character. And no 
one who is a College beneficiary shall remain such 
any longer than he shall continue exemplary for 
sobriety, diligence, and orderly conduct. 

36, There will be three Exhibitions in each year, 
namely, one at each of the semiannual visits of the 
Committee of the Overseers, and one in the other 
term. The Exercises at these exhibitions, as well as 
at Commencement, shall be assigned by the Faculty. 
The refusal of a Student to perform the part assigned 
him on either of these occasions, will be punished 
as a high offence. Every performer shall deliver 



Chap, in.] METHODS of discipline. 13 

to the President, one week at least previously to the 
Exhibition, a fair copy of his performance. At 
such times as may be fixed by the Professor of Rhet- 
orick and Oratory, each performer shall rehearse his 
part. If any one shall make additions to what is con- 
tained in the copy delivered by him to the President 
or other presiding officer, or shall speak any thing in 
publick which he has been directed to omit, he shall 
suffer punishment according to the aggravation of the 
offence. 

37. The Students will be examined, from time to 
time, by Committees appointed by the Overseers from 
their own body, or from the community at large, 
in the whole of their studies. 

38. To carry this design into effect, it shall be the 
duty of each Instructer, when a class has completed a 
particular branch of study, or a particular book, as 
shall be judged expedient by the Faculty, and deter- 
mined by a rule, to give information of the same to 
the President, who will assign a day for the exam- 
ination of the Class in that study or book, giving 
notice at least seven days before to the chairman 
of the Committee appointed to examine in that 
branch of study. And the examining Committee will 
be requested to mark by numbers their estimate of the 
performance of each Student, which estimate shall be 
taken into consideration by the Instructer, and have 
its influence in forming the next Scale of Merit. The 
Committee will also state generally their opinion of 
the degree of thoroughness and exactness with which 
the book, or branch of study, has been learned. 

39. In order to ascertain, as nearly as may be, the 
relative rank of each Student in his Class, in the 
months of June and December of each year a Scale 
of Merit will be made out, by adding together the 
amounts allowed to each Student by the several In- 
struciers; and in forming these amounts each Instructer 



14 METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. [Chap. III. 

shall have reference to the estimate of the examining 
Committee in connection with his own estimate at the 
recitations and other exercises. 

40. In forming the Scale of Merit, one column will 
be assigned to conduct. The estimate of this shall be 
formed by the collective judgment of the Faculty, after 
consulting their records. 

Punishments. 

41. The Governors and Instructers earnestly desire 
that the Students may be influenced to good conduct 
and literary exertion by higher motives than the fear 
of punishment ; but when such motives fail, the Facul- 
ty will have recourse to friendly caution and warning, 
fines, solemn admonition, and official notice of delin- 
quency to Parents or Guardians ; and where the na- 
ture and circumstances of the case require it, to sus- 
pension, dismission, rustication, or expulsion. Fines 
shall not be resorted to as an ordinary punishment; 
none shall be imposed but by the Faculty ; and in no 
case shall a fine exceed ten dollars. 

42. All instances of the violation of the laws of the 
University, by disorderly conduct, by absence from 
stated exercises, or by the negligent performance of 
prescribed duties, will be recorded, and formally report- 
ed to the Faculty at set times, and whenever occasion 
requires. 

43. Whenever a Student is found to be delinquent, he 
shall be liable to be deprived of any such indulgence as 
may be granted to exemplary Students, with respect to 
absence, going out of town, and the like ; to have par- 
ticular portions of study prescribed to him, to be per- 
formed during the vacation, or at other times ; and to 
forfeit all claims to the distinctions and rewards pro- 
vided for the meritorious : and if he persist in such de- 
linquency, he may be suspended or suffer higher pun- 
ishment. 



Chap* III.] METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. 15 

44. By suspension for negligence a Student is sepa- 
rated from his Class as to those branches of study in 
which he is deficient, and placed under private in- 
struction, provided for the purpose in the town of 
Cambridge. 

45. Every person so suspended is required to per- 
form exercises with the person or persons, under whose 
<iare he is placed, at such times and in such manner, 
as the Faculty shall direct ; and he is not permitted to 
leave the town of Cambridge during the whole time of 
his suspension, without special leave for some very 
urgent reason ; the same rules and restrictions being 
in force in the vacation as in term time. And in no 
case shall he be restored to good standing, till he shall 
have given entire satisfaction for at least three months, 
by orderly conduct, and diligent and faithful applica- 
tion to his studies. 

46. It is provided however that a Student, suspend- 
ed either for negligence or for any violation of the 
laws, may, when the Faculty shall think it expedient, 
be removed from the College and the town of Cam- 
bridge, and placed under the care of a suitable person 
not connected with the University ; and he shall be 
subject to restrictions and requisitions similar to those 
above mentioned, and be required to bring satifactory 
testimonials of good conduct, and be examined for re- 
storation. 

47. Dismission is the separation of a Student from 
the University for a year ; at the end of which, on pro- 
ducing testimonials of good conduct during the whole 
time since his dismission, and appearing to be well 
qualified, he may at the discretion of the Faculty, be 
restored to the class to which he before belonged. If 
he fail to produce such testimonials, he shall not be 
admitted to an examination ; and if upon examination 
he be found unfit to join the class he left, he may be 



16 METHODS OF DISCIPLINE. [Chap, III. 

admitted to such other standing as he may be found 
qualified for. 

48. Rustication is the separation of a Student from all 
connexion with the University, his removal from it for 
one, two, or three years, and his final separation from 
the Class of which he was a member. At the end of the 
prescribed time he may be received into the next lower 
class, or other class, at the discretion of the Faculty, not 
more than three below that of which he was a member, 
upon his producing testimonials of good conduct during 
the whole time of his rustication, satisfactory to the 
Faculty, and upon his appearing on examination to be 
well qualified for the standing to which he is destined. 

49. Expulsion is a final separation from the Uni- 
versity. 

50. In all instances of offence against the laws and 
discipline of the University, or against good morals, to 
which nospecifick penalties are annexed in the laws, the 
Faculty may inflict such of the punishments before 
mentioned, as they shall think just and requisite. 

51. The Faculty will not ordinarily have recourse to 
the same punishment where an offence is repeated, but 
will proceed to inflict successively higher punishments, 
until the Student is reclaimed, or separated from the 
University. 

52. Every quarter bill of each Student shall be ac- 
companied by a statement, from the records, of every 
mark of approbation or distinction he has received in 
the quarter, of every punishment or censure he has 
incurred, and of all his absences from exercises, lec- 
tures, and publick worship; with any other information, 
which, in the opinion of the Faculty, will be useful to 
parents or guardians, to whom a copy of the quarter 
bill, with the particulars above enumerated, will be 
sent. 



Chap, IV.] DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES, SiC. 17 



CHAP. IV. 

DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES, AND OBSERVANCE OF THE 
LORD'S DAY. 

53. The Students shall constantly, seasonably, and 
with due reverence, attend prayers in the Chapel 
morning and evening, and publick worship at the 
assigned place on the Lord's day, on the days of the 
annual publick Fast and Thanksgiving, and of the 
Dudleian Lecture, and at such other times as they 
may be required. 

54. Every Student is required on the Lord's day, 
and the evening preceding, to abstain from visiting, 
and from receiving visits, from unnecessary walking, 
from using any diversion, and from all behaviour in- 
consistent with that sacred season. 

55. Any Student who has been educated in the 
worship of the Episcopal Church may obtain leave to 
attend the service of that Church in Cambridge, upon 
his presenting to the Faculty a written request to that 
effect ; from himself, if he be more than twenty-one 
years of age ; and from his parent or guardian, if he be 
under that age. 



CHAP. V. 

COURSE OF INSTRUCTION, HOURS OF STUDY, AND ATTEND- 
ANCE ON LITERARY EXERCISES. 

56. The hours of study are from the end of the half 
hour next after breakfast till 12 o'clock ; from 2 o'clock 
P. M. till "evening prayers ; after 8 o'clock P. M. 
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18 COURSE OF INSTRUCTION, &C. [Chap. V. 

through the first and second terms ; and after 9 o'clock 
P. M. through the third term. 

57. In these hours the Students are required to re- 
main in their rooms and not leave them without a suf- 
ficient reason ; and to abstain not only from disorderly 
noises, but from all noise which may cause interruption, 
such as loud conversation, singing, or playing on a mu- 
sical instrument, and the like. 

58. The University will give instruction in the fol- 
lowing Departments or Schools, viz. 1. Latin. 2. 
Greek. 3. Hebrew, and other Oriental Languages. 
4. Modern Languages. 5. Grammar, Rhetorick, and 
Oratory. 6. Mathematicks and Astronomy. 7. Ex- 
perimental Physicks, and Natural History. 8. Intel- 
lectual and Moral Philosophy. 9. Theology. 10. 
Law. n. Anatomy and Medicine. 

Ancient and Modern History and Geography shall 
be taught by such department or such officer as shall 
be designated by the Corporation from time to time, 
until a Professor of History shall be appointed. 

59. The Faculty will, as they may deem it expedi- 
ent, license persons as teachers of the polite accom- 
plishments, and of exercises conducive to health. 

60. The Professors and Tutors in each department 
shall constitute a board, at which the senior Professor 
or Instructer shall preside ; and they shall conduct the 
instruction in their respective departments ; they shall 
recommend any assistant instructors that may be want- 
ed, and superintend the instruction given by such as- 
sistants ; frequently examining the Students under the 
care of the Assistants, and occasionally taking such 
Students under their own immediate instruction. Quar- 
terly reports respecting each department shall be made 
by the respective boards to the rresident, to be laid be- 
fore the Corporation, with such observations and re- 
commendations as to studies and discipline, as shall 



Chap, v.] COURSE OF instruction, &c. 19 

appear useful ; and a similar report shall be made out 
twice a year, to be laid before the Overseers. 

61. The Students shall be formed, for the purpose 
of instruction, into as many divisions as shall be found 
practicable, and conducive to their improvement ; the 
divisions shall be made with reference to their profi- 
ciency and capacity, and each division shall be encour- 
aged to proceed as rapidly as may be found consistent 
with a thorough knowledge of the subjects of their 
studies. 

62. The lectures and exercises to be attended and 
performed by the Students, shall be arranged from time 
to time in the manner most favourable to their pro- 
gress. The arrangement of the prescribed duties of 
the Professors and Tutors, and of the prescribed stud- 
ies ; the times and modes of recitation ; the classifica- 
tion of the Students ; and in general the methods of In- 
struction, are committed to the Faculty, it being under- 
stood that the Corporation shall, at their discretion, take 
measures, as heretofore, relative to the particulars above 
mentioned, and that the doings of the Faculty thereon 
shall always be subject to the control of the Corpora- 
tion. 

63. The Faculty are authorized to make such occa- 
sional changes and substitutions in the ordinary course 
of study, as in their judgment shall be required or jus- 
tified by the diversities of intellectual powers, habits, 
and progress, in the various divisions above mentioned, 
and as shall seem to them fitted to excite the Students 
to the most earnest and successful application ; and in 
the foregoing arrangements the wishes of the Students 
shall be consulted as far as may be consistent with the 
nature and objects of a liberal education. 

64. It shall be the duty of the Instructers to adapt 
their methods of instruction, as far as practicable, to 
the different degrees of capacity and proficiency among 



20 VACATIONS AND ABSENCE. [Chap. VI. 

the Students ; and in particular, to raise and propose, 
from their respective branches and text-books, subjects 
of. inquiry and questions to be discussed, either by 
writing or in conversation, in order to form the Stu- 
dents to habits of thought and investigation, to call in- 
to exercise their various faculties, to give them the free 
and vigorous use of their minds, to increase the anima- 
tion and interest of study, and to train them at once to 
the discovery and communication of truth. 

S5. No Student shall, during term time, attend the 
instruction of any person v^'ho is not an officer of the 
University, without special permission from the Faculty. 

66. Every literary exercise which a Student fails to 
perform, whether from non-attendance or any other 
cause, or which is negligently done, is required to be 
afterwards performed. Absences and negligences, al- 
though the exercise be afterwards performed, are re- 
corded, and subject the delinquent to censure at the 
discretion of the Faculty. 



CHAP. VI. 



VACATIONS AND ABSENCE. 



67. There will be three Vacations ; the first of two 
weeks from the Wednesday preceding the 25th day of 
December ;^ the second of two weeks, from the first 
Wednesday in April ; and the third of six weeks, next 
preceding Commencement. The Students may return 
to the University on the day before Commencement ; 
but, except the Senior Class, shall not be required to 
be present till the Friday after. 

68. On the Wednesdays, on which the vacations 
begin, there will be the usual morning exercise. 
On the Wednesdays on which the first and second 



Chap, VI.] VACATIONS AND ABSENCE. 21 

vacations end, there will be no exercise; but the 
Students will attend at evening prayers on those days, 
and the regular exercises will begin on the following 
mornings. 

69. No Student, w^ho is not an inhabitant of the 
town of Cambridge, shall remain in Cambridge during 
any vacation without leave from the Faculty ; and all 
Students remaining in Cambridge during the vacations 
shall be subject to the laws enjoining orderly conduct^ 
and to those respecting the boarding-houses of the 
Students. 

70. No Student shall be absent from the University a 
night in term time without permission from the Facul- 
ty, for some urgent reason. Meritorious students, 
whose circumstances require it, may^ at the discretion 
of the Faculty, be absent for a limited time, for the 
purpose of keeping schools ; the studies and exercises 
of their Class during the time of their absence being 
rendered by them according to law. 

71. Absence from the town of Cambridge without 
special permission for urgent reasons, except at such 
times as the Faculty may authorize by a general regu- 
lation, is strictly prohibited. 

72. At the close of each term, where any Student 
has failed to perform, to the satisfaction of the In- 
structers, all studies and exercises which have been 
demanded of him during the term, the same shall be 
required of him in the vacation ; and in order to this, 
he may be required by the Faculty to remain at the 
University until they have been fully performed. Also 
all Students w^ho remain at the University during the va- 
cation, and whose parents request it, shall have duties 
assigned them and exercises to be performed to some 
officer appointed for the purpose. 

73. When any Student has been absent from the 
University, whether with leave or without, he shall on 



22 OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANORS. [Chap. VIU 

his return perform all the exercises which would have 
been required of him if present : Provided, how- 
ever, that in each case, at the request of the Student, 
the Faculty may assign such exercises to a future vaca- 
tion, if, in their opinion, the Student may then be able 
to perform them. 

74. Each Student obtaining leave of absence for 
one night or more, shall lodge a certificate thereof 
with such officer as shall be designated for the pur- 
pose ; and when any Student shall return after such 
leave, or after any vacation, he is required to apply to 
the Freshman of said officer, at his room, to enter the 
time of his return, and he is to see it duly entered. 

75. Each Student who shall prolong his absence 
beyond the time for which he has obtained leave, or 
shall not return immediately upon the expiration of a 
vacation, is required when he enters his name, to 
lodge with the Freshman a certificate of his excuse for 
such absence, signed by his parent or guardian, or his 
physician in case of sickness, or, if he be more than 
twenty-one years of age, by himself. 



CHAP. VII. 

HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANORS. 

76. High offences may be punished at the discretion 
of the Faculty with any of the College punishments. 
Misdemeanors are less offences, and may be punished 
with any punishment below suspension, or, if repeated 
or persisted in, with some higher punishment. 

The following are deemed high offences : 

1. Unlawful combinations. — Gross violations of the 
respect due to the Faculty or other Officers of the Uni- 
versity. — Riotous and noisy behaviour, to the disturb- 
ance of the University or of the inhabitants of Cam- 



Chap, vri.] offences and misdemeanors. 23 

bridge. — Refusing or neglecting to attend, when sent 
for by the Faculty or any Officer. — Disobedience to 
the sentence of the Faculty or a Committee thereof 
for any offence. — Refusing to give testimony in any 
case, when required by the Faculty or a Committee 
thereof, or falsifying therein. — Obstructing or resist- 
ing the Instructers or other Officers in the discharge 
of their duties, or encouraging similar acts in oth- 
ers. — Challenging, assaulting, or maliciously endeav- 
ouring to injure any Student. — Maliciously defacing 
or injuring the Edifices of the University, or any fur- 
niture, apparatus, books, or any other valuable property 
in any apartment thereof. 

2. Profane language. — Intoxication. — Indecency in 
language, dress, or behaviour. — Dissoluteness, or other 
gross immorality. — Habitual extravagance, after due 
admonition. — Playing at any game for money or other 
things of value. — Associating with any person under 
sentence of dismission, rustication, or expulsion ; or 
with any other prohibited person ; or with any person 
of known vice and dissoluteness. — Any offence against 
the laws of the land subjecting the offender to dis- 
graceful punishment. 

3. Keeping any gun, pistol, or gun-powder, or 
firing or using the same in the town of Cam- 
bridge. — Being concerned in any bonfire, fireworks, 
or unauthorized illuminations. — Being an actor or 
spectator at any theatrical entertainment in term 
time. — Making or being present at any festive enter- 
tainment except at the Commencement season and on 
Exhibition day with license of the President. — Going 
to any tavern or victualling house in Cambridge for 
the purpose of eating or drinking, except in the pre- 
sence of a parent, guardian, or patron. 

All offences not enumerated as high offences are pun- 
ishable as Misdemeanors. Among these are the fol- 
lowing : — Being present at any ball, assembly, or par- 



24 OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANORS. [C Imp. V III, 

ty of pleasure in term time, without leave from the 
President at the request of a parent, guardian, or patron. 
—Playing at cards or dice. — Buying, selling, or bar- 
tering books, apparel, furniture or any other property, 
without leave of the President, or a written permission 
from a parent, guardian, or patron. — Disobedience to 
any of the rules and regulations of the University, and 
disrespectful and unbecoming language or conduct, 
not amounting to a high offence. — Idleness, negligence, 
and in general all behaviour inconsistent with the good 
order, peace, and prosperity of the University. 

77. In case of combination to resist the Faculty or 
laws of the University, or of other offences in which 
so many are actors or abettors, as to render it inexpe- 
dient to punish all concerned, the Faculty will select 
for punishment as many of the offenders as they may 
judge necessary to secure the end of punishment ; and 
those who have been the most culpable, when known, 
shall be selected for punishment; and also the two 
oldest of those concerned in the offence. 

78. Also where acts of disorder or violence are com- 
mitted by individuals who are screened from detection 
by their situation, and by the disposition of those 
around them to withhold evidence, the Faculty may 
select for punishment any who, by withholding evi- 
dence and screening the guilty, shall thus appear, to 
the satisfaction of the Faculty, to be actors in or abet- 
tors of the crime. 

79. Whenever the Faculty are satisfied that a Stu- 
dent is not fulfilling the purposes of his residence at 
the University, and is not likely to fulfil them ; or that 
he is from any cause an unfit member of the society, 
it shall be their duty to dismiss him from the Universi- 
ty : Provided, however, that the Faculty may, when- 
ever they see fit, acquaint the parent or guardian of 
such Student with his character and conduct, and 
leave it to such parent or guardian to remove him by 
his own act. 



Chap. VIII.] ROOMS, DRESS, EXPENSES, &C. 25 



CHAP. VIII. 

OCCUPATION OF ROOMS ; DRESS ; EXPENSES AND DEBTS ; 

CLASS MEETINGS. 

80. The Students shall statedly reside in the rooms 
assigned to them. No one shall lodge or board out of 
the College without leave, nor except at such houses 
as are approved by the Faculty * nor shall he suffer 
any one to lodge at his chamber without leave from 
one of the Faculty. 

81. In all cases of disorder at rooms, the occupants 
shall be responsible. 

82. When two Students occupy a room, each shall 
supply his proportion of furniture and wood, dur- 
ing the whole time for which the room is assigned, 
whether he be present or absent. 

83. The dress of the Undergraduates is to be as 
follows : The coat of black mixedj* single-breasted, 
with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket 
flaps ; the waist reaching to the natural waist, with 
lappels of the same length ; with three crow's feet made 
of black silk cord on the lower part of the sleeve of the 
coat of a Senior, two on that of a Junior, and one on that 
of a Sophomore : the waistcoat of Black mixed or of 
black, or when of cotton or linen fabrick, of white, 
single-breasted with a standing collar : the pantaloons 
of black mixed or of black bombazet, or, when of cot- 
ton or linen fabrick, of white : the surtout or great 
coat of black mixed, with not more than two capes. 
Tne buttons of the above dress must be flat, covered 
with the same cloth as that of the garment, not more 
than eight, nor less than six, on the front of the coat, 

* By black mixed (called also Oxford mixed) is understood, black, with a 
mixture of not more than one twentieth, nor less than one twenty-fifth part, 
white. 

4 



26 ROOMS, DRESS, EXPENSES, &C. [Chap, VIII. 

and four behind. A surtout, or outside garment, is 
not to be substituted for the* coat; but the Students 
are permitted to wear black gowns, in which they may- 
appear on all publick occasions. Night gowns of cotton, 
or linen, or silk fabrick, made in the usual form, or in 
that of a frock coat, may be worn, except on the Sab- 
bath, on Exhibition, or on other occasions when an 
undress would be improper. The neckcloths must be 
plain black, or plain white ; the hats, of the common 
form and black ; and the shoes and boots, black. 

84. No Student, while in the state of Massachusetts, 
shall, either in vacation or term time, wear any differ- 
ent dress or ornament from those above mentioned, ex- 
cept that, in case of mourning, he may add the custom- 
ary badges. 

85. Some gentleman in Cambridge, not of the Fac- 
ulty, shall be appointed by the Corporation, to be 
Patron of all Students not of this commonwealth, who 
belong to places more than one hundred miles distant 
from Cambridge, and shall have charge of all the 
funds of such Students. 

86. The Patron shall have particular instruction 
from the authorities of the University, concerning the 
kind of expenses allowed to be incurred by the Stu- 
dents whose funds are in his hands, and he shall make 
no disbursements and pay no bills inconsistent with 
such instructions ; and whatever bills he may pay, shall 
contain a distinct specification and charge of every 
article. 

87. The Patron shall give a detailed account of the 
expenses incurred by each Student under his care i^o 
the Faculty, and to the Corporation, when required. 

88. The parent or guardian of each Student shall be 
informed what are the necessary annual expenses in- 
cluded in the quarter bills ; and he shall also be in- 
formed by the Patron what funds for the support and 



Chap, IX.] ' COMMONS. 27 

use of his son or ward must be remitted to him ; and 
the Patron is to have the whole control of the same, 
under the direction of the Faculty. 

89. No Student, subject to this law, shall be per- 
mitted to continue at the University, unless he comply 
with it ; and every such Student is to be charged in 
his quarter bills at the rate of six dollars a year, towards 
a comj)ensation to the Patron. 

90. No such Student is allowed to contract any 
debt without an order from the Patron. 

91. The rules of the University, in relation to the 
expenditures of Students belonging to this state, or to 
any place within an hundred miles of Cambridge, are 
to be communicated to the Students concerned and 
to their parents or guardians ; and no such Student is 
allowed to contract any debt without an order from his 
parent or guardian. 

92. No class meeting shall be held without special 
license from the President, nor for any other purpose 
or purposes than those expressed in the license, nor at 
any times that shall interfere with any College exer- 
cise. Any meetings otherwise held will be punished 
as unlawful combinations. 



CHAP. IX. 



COMMONS. 



93. Board is provided in Commons at a price not 
exceeding the actual cost ; and ^s ttie establishment is 
intended for the general benefit, every Student is charg- 
ed two dollars and fifty cents a quarter for Steward 
and Commons, whether he board in commons or not, 

94. Any Student wishing to board out of Commons, 
must make application for each quarter, at least a 



28 COMMONS. [Chap. ix. 

week previously to quarter day. The mode of applying 
is to lodge with the Tutor of his class a written re- 
quest, stating the place where he proposes to board, 
which, in the case of a minor, shall be accompanied 
hy the written consent of his parent, or guardian, or 
patron. 

95. He must live at a house approved by the Facul- 
ty ; and no houses are to be approved as board ing- 
places, but such as conform to the regulations which 
may be established. 

96. No Undergraduate can be put out of Commons 
but by a note from the President, or one of the Tu- 
tors, his own Tutor if present. And no Graduate 
shall put himself out of Commons, unless he be going 
out of Commons for more than one day. Each Stu- 
dent boarding in Commons shall, immediately upon 
coming into town, give notice to the contractor at the 
kitchen ; and if any neglect to give such notice, he 
shall be liable to a charge for board amounting to 
double the cost of commons for the whole of the time 
he shall have been in Commons without such notice 
being given. 

97. All damage done to the utensils in the hall at 
ciny meal, shall be charged to the person or persons 
who did the same or any part of it, if known ; and if 
it be not known who did the damage, the loss shall be 
assessed according to the law respecting damages gene- 
rally, on the Students in Commons. 

98. Any violation of order and decorum at Com- 
mons, shall subject the offender to punishment at the 
discretion of the Fadilty. 



Chap. X.l DAMAGES, QUARTER BILLS, &C. 29 



CHAP. X. 

DAMAGES AND REPAIRS ; QUARTER BILLS ; STEWARD AND 

INSPECTOR. 

99. Any Student who shall damage, destroy, or 
purloin property belonging to the University, shall make 
good the same ; and he may also be assessed to an 
equal amount, to be appropriated to the repairing of 
general damages ; or suffer any of the statutory punish- 
ments according to the nature and circumstances of the 
offence. 

100. If the perpetrator be not discovered, damage, 
when done to any inhabited chamber or study, shall be 
made good by the occupants ; when done to an entry, 
by an equal assessment upon those inhabiting the en- 
try ; when done to any public seat, table, or room, by 
an equal assessment upon those who occupy such seat, 
table, or room ; and when any other property, belong- 
ing to the University, is damaged, or destroyed, or pur- 
loined, it shall be made good by all the Students who 
were in town at the time. 

101. Every Student is required, without delay, to 
discharge his quarterly dues ; and lawful interest shall 
be paid upon every bill, from the time it has been due 
three months until it be discharged. And if any Stu- 
dent shall neglect to pay to the Steward, on or before 
the second day of every term, each quarter bill due 
from him to the University, except the last which was 
made out, he shall not be permitted to occupy his 
chamber, join his class, or continue at the University ; 
and he shall be fined a sum not less than twenty-iive 
cents, nor more than fifty cents, for each day after that 
time, until he shall produce to the Faculty a certificate 
from the Steward of his having made the required pay- 
ment ; and in the mean time he shall be subject to the 
common charges in the quarter bilL If any Student 



30 STEWARD AND INSPECTOR. [Chap, X. 

shall be absent for non-payment of a bill, for more 
than one month after the beginning of the term when 
payment ought to be made by this law, his study shall 
be assigned to another, nor shall he be admitted to 
the privileges of the University till he has produced a 
certificate from some respectable gentleman in his 
neighbourhood, testifying to his good behaviour in his 
absence, nor till he has passed a satisfactory examina- 
tion in his studies. 

102. The Steward is Inspector of the edifices of 
the University. He also has charge of the other build- 
ings and the real estate of the University in the town 
of Cambridge. He is from time to time to examine 
the exterior and interior state of those edifices, and, 
with the approbation of the President, cause such re- 
pairs thereon, and on the enclosures of the University 
grounds, as may appear necessary or proper, the amount 
on any building not to exceed one hundred dollars. 

103. He will at some convenient time before or 
after Commencement, in company with each of the offi- 
cers having charge of particular districts in the seve- 
ral Colleges and College houses, examine the rooms 
inhabited by Students, and estimate and assess any 
damage done to any room during the year preceding, 
beyond the ordinary and reasonable wear. In conjunc- 
tion with such officer he will cause every room, at the 
beginning of each year, to be put into decent and 
proper condition, prior to its being occupied. For the 
customary repairs of the rooms, the occupants will ap- 
ply to the officer resident in the entry, and where there 
is no officer, to such person as may be designated. 

104. The Steward, being furnished with directions 
and documents by a Committee of the Faculty, shall 
make out the general quarter bill, which, having been 
signed by said Committee, he shall enter upon the 
book of quarter bills ; and he shall deliver to each Stu- 
dent his particular bill. 



Chap. XI.] LIBRARY. 31 

105. The Steward shall engage proper servants and 
persons to perform labour for the University, as the 
Faculty shall direct, such servants and persons to be 
approved by the Faculty, and to be removable by them 
or by the President, for any sufficient cause. The ac- 
counts for the wages of the persons above mentioned 
he shall present to the Faculty quarter-yearly for al- 
lowance. He shall also perform the services, which 
he has been accustomed to perform, in relation to the 
accounts of the University with the contractor for 
Commons and for dinners at the Commencement and 
on other occasions. 

106. The Steward shall collect whatever is charged 
in the several quarter bills. He shall settle his account 
every year in June, at the end of the fourth quarter, 
with the Treasurer of the University, and pay him his 
balance; and the Treasurer shall advance to him, 
from lime to time, out of the University stock, as much 
money as the Corporation shall think needful for him 
in carrying on the business of his department. 



CHAP. XL 



LIBRARY. 



107. All donations of books^ to the value of two 
hundred dollars or more, shall be kept by them- 
selves, so far as the convenient disposition of the 
books will admit, the names of the donors being 
written in large gilt letters over the donations respec- 
tively. The particular placing of these, and all other 
books, shall be directed by a Committee of the Over- 
seers and Corporation, to be chosen for that pur- 
pose. 



32 LIBRARY. [Chap. XI. 

108. Every book shall be lettered on the back, and 
its place on the shelf numbered. 

109. A written catalogue of all the books in each 
alcove, shall be placed therein ; and a catalogue of 
the whole Library shall be arranged in such manner, 
and printed at such times, as the Corporation shall 
direct. There shall also be an account of the donors 
open to every one's inspection, to begin with the 
donors to the former Library. 

110. A print of the University Seal, handsomely en- 
graved, with a blank space for inserting the name of the 
donor, shall be pasted in the beginning or end of 
every book. 

111. The books most suitable for the use of the 
Undergraduates, shall be distinguished, by their place, 
or in some other way, from the rest ; and no other 
shall be borrowed by them, but by special license. 
When there are two or more copies of the same book, 
the least elegant shall be lent first. 

112. On the expiration of the term of the Li- 
brarian's office, or whenever he may leave it, he 
shall give an account of the state of the Library ta 
the Corporation ; and the Corporation, or those 
whom they shall appoint, shall inspect the library 
before another choice, and see that the books are 
in their proper place and order. And if any dam- 
age come to the Library by the negligence of the 
Librarian, or his non-observance of the laws of the 
Library, it shall be made good by him, out of his 
salary, or otherwise. 

113. The Librarian, shall steadily and constantly at- 
tend to the duties of his office ; but as he may be some- 
times necessarily hindered, or may need assistance in 
the care of the Library, and in delivering and receiv- 
ing books, he shall have an Assistant, appointed by 
the Corporation, who shall be obliged to perform 



Chap, XI.] LIBRARY. 33 

the same duty as the Librarian. The Assistant Li- 
brarian shall also perform the duties of a Proctor, 
when required. 

114. The Librarian or his Assistant shall continue 
at the College in the vacations. 

115. No book shall be borrowed from the Library, or 
returned to it, without the knowledge and presence of the 
Lribrarian or his Assistant, who shall take particularno- 
tice of the state of each book, w hen delivered out^ and 
when returned ; and every book when lent, shall have 
a paper cover on it, which shall be returned undefaced 
with the book. And the Librarian shall keep a fair and 
regular account of the person borrowing or returning, 
the time of doing it, the title, size, number of pages, 
prints, if any, in the book, and its place in the Li- 
brary ; which account shall be signed by the borrow- 
er, if present ; otherwise the book may be delivered 
upon his written application. 

116. The following persons only shall have a right 
to borrow books from the Library : The members of 
the Government and Faculty, and the other Officers 
of the University ; Resident Graduates, and resident 
professional Students, giving bonds, with the consent 
of the Faculty ; and Undergraduates. 

117. Also gentlemen, residing in Cambridge, who 
have been in the Government of the Universitv, or who 
have been benefactors to the Library to the amount 
of forty dollars ; and gentlemen residing in any other 
town in the Commonwealth, who have made a do- 
nation to the Library to the amount of two hundred 
dollars, may have a special license from the Faculty to 
borrow books from the Library, on the same condi- 
tions as the Overseers ; such license to continue to the 
end of the next June, and to be renewed at the discre- 
tion of the Faculty. 



t54 LIBRARY. [Chap. XI. 

118. If the Honorable Council, or Senate, or 
House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of 
Massachusetts, shall have occasion to consult any 
books in the Library, the Librarian shall deliver 
them to the written order of the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth, the President of the Senate, or the 
Speaker of the House. 

119. Regularly ordained Clergymen of all denomi- 
nations, who have been educated at any public Col- 
lege or University, or who have received a degree at 
Harvard University, living within ten miles of the 
College, may have the same use of the Library as 
the Overseers ; and other ordained Clergymen, within 
the same distance, not coming under this description, 
upon application to the President, at the discretion 
of the President or Corporation. 

120. Persons not inhabitants of the town of Cam* 
bridge, but having a temporary residence therein for 
purposes of study, may take out books from the Li- 
brary, with permission from the Faculty, according to 
the conditions and regulations prescribed ; application 
to be made in writing to the Librarian. 

121. The Corporation may, for special reasons, 
grant the privilege of the Library to other persons 
than those above mentioned. 

122. No person shall ordinarily be allowed to borrow 
from the Library more than three volumes, at the same 
time, except the Officers of instruction and government, 
and the Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge, each 
of whom shall be allowed to borrow six : Provided 
that, should they at any time have occasion for more 
than six books, they shall be allowed an additional 
number, to be returned at the end of six weeks. If 
any Resident Graduate represent to tlie Librarian, 
that he is engaged in the study of some particular 
subject, on account of which he has occasion for more 
books, the Librarian may, at his discretion, permit 



Chap, XI.] LIBRARY. 35 

him to have an additional number. And no Student 
shall keep any book, belonging to the Library, more 
than six weeks ; nor any other person more than 
three months. 

123. If any person desires to borrow a book, which 
is lent out of the Library, he may leave his name and 
the title of the book with the Librarian ; and when the 
book shall be returned, the Librarian shall reserve it 
for the person so applying, provided he call for it 
within a week, or, if he be an Undergraduate, at his 
next time of receiving books from the Library. 

124. No person shall lend to any other, a book 
which he has borrowed from the Library, nor let it 
go from under his personal custody. And no Student 
shall carry a book out of town without special leave. 

125. If any person shall fail to comply with the 
laws regulating the borrowing and returning of books, 
and the lending or carrying them out of town, such 
person shall be reported to the Faculty, who may 
suspend his privilege of borrowing, or inflict some 
other penalty at their discretion. 

126. No person shall write in a book belonging to 
the Library, except the Librarian, or the President, 
or some person authorized to do so by the President 
or Corporation. 

127. Whereas some books, from their nature or 
their costliness, ought not to be removed from the Li- 
brary, the Corporation shall cause to be prepared a 
catalogue of such books, which shall not be taken out 
without their special permission. 

128. When there are two or more copies of a book, 
the Corporation shall have power to exchange all 
except one, if they see cause, for other books of 
equal value, not in the Library ; and where the book 
exchanged is a donation, the name of the donor shall 
be inscribed in the substituted book. 



36 LIBRARY. [Chap, XI. 

129. The Librarian shall take care that the Library- 
be well aired and preservt^d from wet, and he or his 
Assistant shall constantly be present while there is a 
fire, and shall see it thoroughly extinguished before 
night. 

130. The Librarian or his Assistant shall always 
be present while the Library is open for the borrowing 
or returning or consulting of books ; and no other per- 
son, except the President, shall have a key to the Li- 
brary, and this to be used only on extraordinary 
occasions, at his discretion. 

131. No academical exercises, except lectures on 
Bibliography, shall be allowed in the Library ; nor 
shall a candle or lamp be ever carried into it. 

132. Each member of the Senior and Junior Classes 
may borrow from the Library, fyf such books as are 
selected for their use, not more than three volumes at 
a time ; and each student of the Sophomore and 
Freshman Classes, not more than two volumes ; at 
such times, and under such rules as may be prescrib- 
ed by the Faculty. 

133. All books borrowed by the Students, shall be 
returned on the day preceding the Spring and Winter 
vacations respectively. Those who reside in Cam- 
bridge during any vacation may borrow and return 
books at stated times. 

134. If any Undergraduate wish, for some special 
purpose, to read or consult any book not allowed to 
be in the common use of the Class to which he be- 
longs, the Librarian may, if he sees fit, permit him to 
read or consult such book in the Library, or may lend 
it to him from the Library. 

135. No Undergraduate, when in the Library, 
shall go into any of the alcoves, or take down any 
book from the shelves, or remain there to read or 



Chap, XI.] LIBRARY. 37 

consult any book without special permission from the 
Librarian. 

136. If any book borrowed from the Library be in- 
jured or defaced by writing in it or otherwise, or be 
lost^ the Librarian shall make immediate report of it 
to the Faculty. And if the borrower be a Graduate 
or Undergraduate, the Faculty shall oblige him to re- 
place it as soon as possible, with one of equal value, or 
they may punish him by fine, or otherwise ; and if such 
volume be part of a set, the borrower shall be obliged 
to replace the whole set, or be punished as above ; 
and until this be done, he shall not be allowed to bor- 
row any other book. If any other person shall injure, 
deface, or lose a book, borrowed from the Library, he 
shall make it good. 

137. Every person having books from the Library, 
shall return them three weeks before the third vaca- 
tion ; and after that time no book shall be taken out 
of the Library till the beginning of the vacation. 
And within the first week after the books are so 
returned, each book shall be taken down, and care- 
fully dusted. On the Friday of the week immedi- 
ately preceding the vacation, or on an earlier day 
if convenient, by a notification from the President, 
there shall be an inspection of the Library, by a Com- 
mittee of the Overseers and Corporation, who shall 
make report to the Corporation, and to the Overseers 
at their next meeting. And if there be any books not 
then returned, or returned defaced or abused, by any 
other beside resident Graduates or Undergraduates, 
the Librarian shall inform this Committee thereof, with 
the names of the persons delinquent. 

138. No Student shall be admitted to a first de- 
gree, nor any resident Bachelor to a second degree, 
till he has produced to the President a certificate 
from the Librarian, that he has returned in good 



$8 COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. [Chap, XII. 

order, or replaced, every book that he has borrowed ; 
or, ill default thereof, has deposited with the Libra- 
rian double the value of it in money, or, if it be 
part of a set, double the value of the whole set ; which 
value shall be determined by the Faculty. 

139. The Library, in terra time, shall be open, 
for using books, six hours a day on the first four 
secular days of the w^eek, and four hours on Friday, 
during such parts of the day as the Faculty shall di- 
rect ; except on the days of public Fast and Thanks- 
giving, the day of the General Election, the 4th of 
July, and the days of publick Exhibition during the 
performances. 

140. Persons allowed to take books from the Li- 
brary, and persons having special permission, may 
read in the Library under such regulations as shall be 
prescribed. 



CHAPTER XIL 

COxMMENCEMENT AND ACADEMICAL DEGREES. 

141. The Commencement will be on the last 
Wednesday in August annually. 

142 No academical degrees shall be given, but by 
the Corporation, with the consent of the Overseers. 

143. No one shall be admitted to a first degree who 
has not attended upon, and satisfactorily performed, the 
course of academical exercises ; nor any one who re- 
fuses or neglects to perform at the Commencement the 
part assigned him. 

144. Every Bachelor of Arts, having preserved a 
good character during the three years subsequent to his 
taking his degree, shall, upon his complying with the 



Chap. XII.] COMMENCEMENT AND DEGREES. 89 

requisitions hereafter stated, be entitled to the degree of 
Master of Arts. 

145. Candidates for the first degree shall pay five 
dollars each, for the public dinner, and other Com- 
mencement 'charges, and two dollars for printing the 
Catalogue ; a proportional part of which sum shall, 
from quarter to quarter, while they are Undergradu- 
ates, be charged to them in their bills. 

Each Candidate for the second degree shall pay the 
same sum for the public dinner. And the Candidates, 
both for the first and second degree, shall pay five 
dollars each to the Steward for the President. 

146. Each performer at the Commencement shall 
deliver a fair copy of his performance to the Presi- 
dent, or presiding officer, within such time as shall be 
prescribed, previously to the Cammencement. 

147. If any one shall make additions to what is con- 
tained in the copy delivered by him to the President, 
or other presiding officer, or shall utter any thing iti 
publick which he has been directed to omit, he shall not 
be suffered to proceed, and shall be liable to lose his 
degree. 

148. No Student shall receive a first or second de- 
gree unless he produce to the President a certificate 
from the Steward, that he has paid his College dues, 
and one from the Librarian that he is not delinquent at 
the Library ; which certificates must be produced on 
the day before the Commencement, at farthest, or the 
degree will not be conferred that year. 

149. Candidates for the first and second degree, and 
for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and Bachelor of 
LaWj shall join the publick procession on Commence- 
ment day. And every candidate for a first degree 
shall attend in black, or in such dress as is prescribed 
for Undergraduates. 



40 RESIDENT GRADUATES, &C. [Chap, XIII. 

150. Personsj who have received a degree in any 
other University or College, may, upon proper appli- 
cation, be admitted ad eundem, upon paying five 
dollars to the Steward for the President. But honor- 
ary degrees, conferred by the Corporation with the 
consent of the Overseers, on account of distinguished 
merit, are free from all charge. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

RESIDENT GRADUATES AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENTS. 

151. Any Master or Bachelor of Arts of good char- 
acter may be admitted to the privileges of a Resident 
Graduate, on giving a bond to the Steward, in the sum 
of one hundred and forty dollars, to pay all College 
dues. 

152. Graduates and Students in the Theological 
and Law Schools, and matriculated Medical Students 
living in Cambridge, are admitted to the Lectures and 
Library of the University. 

153. If any Graduate or professional Student, resid- 
ing in Cambridge, shall be chargeable with idleness, ex- 
travagance, or any vice ; or shall allow disorder in his 
room, or fail to show respect to the laws and govern- 
ors of the University, and, after admonition by the 
President, shall not reform ; all his privileges as a 
Resident Graduate, shall be withdrawn. 



APPENDIX. 



The following Votes of the Corporation passed at 
the same time with the foregoing Statutes and 
Laivs of the University, on the 1st of June, and 
with them ivere approved by the Overseers on 
the iOth of June, 1825. 

1. All the Laws and Statutes of the University, 
coming within the purview of the Statutes this day 
enacted, are hereby repealed. 

2. The said Statutes, or such parts of them as are 
necessary to be known for the government and disci- 
pline of the Students, with such further regulations 
made by the Corporation or the Faculty, as shall re- 
quire publication, shall be printed, and a copy thereof 
be delivered to each student. 

3. The changes made by the said Statutes in the 
vacations, in the course of study, and in the duties of 
the several officers of the University, and all the other 
material changes therein contained, shall go into effect 
at such times, and in such manner, as the Corporation 
shall advise and determine ; they having regard to the 
claims of present officers and to the general interests 
of the University. 

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At a meeting of the Corporation of Harvard Uni- 
versity, June ISth, 1825: 

Voted. That the Laws and Statutes recently en- 
acted shall go into effect after the present quarter, i. e. 
after the twenty-third of the present month, excepting 
where otherwise provided. , 

Voted, That the law (67) relating to vacations, go 
into effect after the next vacation. 

Voted, That the laws relating to the classing of the 
Students, and occasional changes and substitutions in 
the course of study (61. 62. 63), also those respecting 
the public examinations (37. 38. 39. 40), shall be imme- 
diately applied to the class that shall enter the Univer- 
sity after the next Commencemerit, and that the same 
shall he applied to the other classes as soon and as far, as 
the Faculty of the University shall deem expedient. 



On Saturday (see law 71) after the exercises, any 
student not specially prohibited may go out of town. 
If the students thus going out of town, fail to return so 
as to be present at evening prayers, they must enter their 
names w'lXh the College Freshman, within the hour next 
preceding the evening study bell ; and all students who 
shall be absent from evening prayers on Saturday must 
in like manner enter their names. Any one going out 
of town on Saturday and not returning by evening 
prayers, must produce a certificate of his excuse, as pro- 
vided in the case of absence from the University be- 
yond leave or after a vacation (75). 

The College Freshman, living in No. 1. Massachu- 
setts Hall, keeps the book of absence, and, under the 
superintendence of the officer in that entry, performs 
the duties pointed out in laws 74. 75. 



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library'regulations, {see Law 139.) 

1. The Library, during the first and second terms, 
shall be open for consulting books 

on Monday 1 

Tuesday ! from 9 o'clock, A. M. till noon, 

Wednesday ( and from 1. P. M. till 4. 

Thursday J 

Tj . , > from 9 A. M. till noon, and 

Friday ^ from 2 P. M. till 3. 

During the third term, 

on Monday "| 

Tuesday ! from 8 o'clock A. M. till noon, 

Wednesday | and from 1 till 6 P. M. 

Thursday J 

j^ . , ? from 9 o'clock, A. M. till noon, 

^ ritlay ^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^ p^ ^ ^jj ^ 

2. Resident Graduates, and resident Students with 
the privileges of Graduates, may borrow and return 
books on the before mentioned days of the week dur- 
ing the hour from 2 to 3 o'clock P. M. 

3. Undergraduates may borrow and return books 
during the hour from 1 to 2 o'clock, as follows — 

Juniors and Seniors, — on Monday and Thursday : 
Sophomores, — on Tuesday ; 
Freshmen, — on Wednesday. 



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THE 



COURSE OF INSTRUCTION 

For Undergraduates in Harvard University. 
Oct, 1825. 



The folio-wing are the principal Authors and Studies assigned to the 

Classes, 

FRESHMEN. 

1. Collectanea Graeca Majora. (Dalzel's.) 2 vols. 8vo. — The 4th 

Cambridge edition is preferred. 

2. Greek Testament. (Griesbach's.) 

3. Livy, five books, 12mo. 

4. Grotius de Veritate Religionis Christianae. 

5. Horace. Cambridge edition. 

6. Excerpta Latina. Wells, Boston, 8vo. 

7. Geometry (Legendre's). Algebra (Lacroix's).— Cambridge Transl.- 

8. Adam's Roman Antiquities. 

9. Lowtb's English Grammar. 
Exercises in Declamation once a Week. 

SOPHOMORES. 
1, 6, and 7, continued and finished. 

10. Cicero de Oratore, or an equivalent. 

11. Analytick Geometry. — Cambridge Course of Mathematicks. 

12. Blair's Lectures on Rhetorick. 2 vols. 8vo. 

13. History, Ancient and Modern. (Tytler's.) 

Exercises in Declamation and Composition once a fortnight 
through the year. 

JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. 

14. Logick. (Dr. Hedge's.) 

15. Paley's Moral Philosophy. 

16. Homer's Iliad. (Robinson's edition is recommended.) 

17. Juvenal and Persius expurg. or an equivalent part of Tacitus. 

18. Hebrew Grammar. (Prof. Willard's.) 

19. No. 1 & 2 of Whiting & Watson's Hebrew Bible, or the Psalter. 

20. Natural Philosophy. — Cambridge Course. 

21. Topography, &c. — Camb. Course of Math. 

22. Diff. and Int. Calculus or Fluxions. — Camb. Course of Math.* 

23. Chemistry. 

Public Declamations — Forensick Disputes once a month, Themes 
once a fortnight. 

* A substitute is allowed for this branch, and for the parts of Natural Philosophy con- 
n"fected with it. 

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SENIOR SOPHISTERS. 

24. Intellectual Philosophy. (Stewart's and Brown's.) 

25. Paley's Evidences, and Butler's Analogy. 

26. Political Economy. (J. B. Say's.) 

27. Philosophy ofrf atural History. (Smellie's. Dr. John Ware's edit.) 
Declamations, Forensicks, and Themes, as in the Junior year. 

K.B The pnhlick Declamations, held on Thursday, at the morning 
study bell, are to be attended by the Seniors and Juniors. 

N. B. Instead of 18 and 19, those above twenty-one years of age, 
and others at the written request of their parent or guardian, may 
attend to Mathematicks, or Greek & Latin, or one of the foreign 
Modern Languages. 

A like option is allowed between Greek & Latin, and the Modem 
Languages, in the afternoon of the second term of the Junior year ; be- 
tween Mjithematicks and the Modern Languages in the forenoon 
of the second term of the Junior year ; between Ancient or Mod- 
ern Languages, and Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology, in the 
afternoon of the second and third terms of the Senior year ; and be- 
tween Intellectual Philosophy and Natural History, in the afternoon 
of the first term of the Senior year. The above studies will, as 
far as possible, be so arranged as to admit of any Student's attending 
to all. 



TABLE OF PRIVATE EXERCISES. 



FRESHMEN. 



Morning 
exercise. 

Forenoon. 



Afternoon. 



Mornina;. 



V Mond. to Sat. ) ^^^^^ ^^^ j- atin. 
^ inclusive. ) 



Monday to 
Friday. 

Saturday. 

Monday to 
Friday. 






Forenoon 



Afternoon 



Monday to 
Saturday. 

Monday to 
Friday. 

Saturday. 



i Monday to 
' ( Friday. 



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Mathematicks. 

English Granamar. 
( Declamation, History, and 
( Antiquities. 

> Greek and Latin. 
SOPHOMORES. 

< Greek and Latin. 

Greek and Latin. 

Rhetorick. 

Mathematicks. 

History, and Declamation, or 

English Composition. 

Maihematicks. 

Greek and Latin. 



( 1st & 2d terms &, 10 
I weeks of 3d term. 
3 last w'ks 3d term. 



\ 



1st term. 
2d term. 
3d term. 



1st k, 2d terms. 
3d term. 



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JUNIOR SOPHISTERS. 



Morning. 



Forenoon. 



Afternoon. 



( Monday to 
I Saturday. 
C Mon. to Frid. 
) Monday to 
( Thursday. 

( Monday to 
\ Friday. 



1st term. 

2d and 3d terms. 

1st term. 



Logick and Mor. Philosophy. 
Mathematicks &. Nat. Fhilos. 
Chemistry, last five weeks. 
Mathematics, )^^^j^^^^^j^^_ 
or Mod. Lang, ^ 
Hebrew, or substitute. 
Greek and Latin, or Mod. Lang. 2d term. 
^ Nat. Philosophy. 3d term. 

Every second Friday the Class present Themes, and half the Class read Fo- 
rensicks. 

SENIOR SOPHISTERS. 



2d term. 
1st term. 



Morning. 
Forenoon. 



Mond. to Sat. | Natural Philosophy. 



1st term. 

2d k. 3d term?. 

1st term. 

2d term. 

Isl term. 



Afternoon. 



2d and 3d terms. 



itel. Phil. Ha Polit. Economy. 

(Monday to ^Astronomy 

I Thursday. I Theology and Nat. Philos. 

r Intel. Phil, or Nat. History.* 

Ti,T J * T? • 1 ! Ancient or Mod. Lang, as 
Mond. to Frid. < u 4-^ * f r-i •* 

j a substitute for Chemistry, 

(^Mineralogy, and Geology. ^ 

Every second Friday the Class present Themes, and half the class read Fo- 

rensicks. 

The usual time of private exercises, for the morning, is immedi- 
ately after prayers ; in the forenoon, at X and half after X o'clock, 
and at XI and half after XI ; in the afternoon, from the end of the 
summer vacation, till the first day of November, at IV ; from that 
time till the winter vacation, between IV and half after III ; from 
the end of the '-^^er vacation, till the middle of March, at IV ; 
thence, till the enu ' "^ *'^rra, at half after IV ; during the third 
term at V. ^Anjr variatiui. "^ese times, required by the size or 

division of the ckisses, or the citure of the exercise, will be an- 
nounced as there may be occasion by the Professors or Tutors. 



LECTURES. * 

TERM L 
By the Professor of Divinity, Monday to Saturday, last five weeks, 
at XI,t to Seniors. 
Hebrew, Monday to Saturday, first six weeks, at 

•X^I, to Juniors. 
Astronomy, Monday to Saturday, first six weeks, 



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tc 



a 



at XI, to Seniors. 



<( 



Chemistry, Monday to Saturday, last five weeks, 
at XI, to Juniors. 

French and Spanish Literature, at the times as- 
signed to Mod. Lang. (See Table of Private 
Exercises.) 

* The option here mentioned, will, for the present year, take place at the 
morning exercise of the 2d or 3d term. 

t On Saturday the Lecture may be at an earliar hour, at the discretion of the 
Lecturer. 



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TERM II. 

By the Professor of Greek, Monday to Friday ,,'^ last three weeks, at 
XI, to Juniors. 
« French and Spanish Literature, at the times as- 

signed to Modern Languages. 
«■« Chemistry, Mineralogy, and Geology, one hour be- 

fore evening prayers, to Seniors. 

TERM III. 

By the Professor of La^ (Royall)y Monday to Thursday, at XI, to 
• Seniors. * 

Physiology at XI, after the lectures of the ROyall 

Prof, are finished, to Seniors. 
Metaphysics, Monday to Thursday, at XI, to Sen- 
iors. 

*' Anatomy and Surgery first five weeks, at IV, P. M., 

to Seniors. 

" Natural Philosophy, from Monday to Friday, ex- 

cept every second Friday, at XI, to Juniors, 

" (Rumford,) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, at 

IX, to Seniors. 

" Rhetorick and Oratorj^, Monday, Tuesday, and 

Wednesday, at IX, to Juniors. 

*^ French and Spanish Lite rain- at the times as- 

signed to Modern J ^'^'^ 

'* Miperalog}*at(' '^ nonday to Friday, af V., 

P. M., to>S>. o. ' ^ .". 

'* ^ -Natural History, Monday to Friday, last eight 
weeks, at IV, P. M., to Seniors. 

N. B. In the several courses of lectures, the students are to be 
examined at the end of each lecture, at the beginning of the next,, 
or after every four or five lectures (an hour being set apart for this 
purpose), as the Professor shall judge expedient. 

♦The forenoon lecture or exercise for the Seniors and Juniors on Saturday^ 
during the 2d and 8d terms, will iJe determined* hereafter. ^ • * 



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